7 tableau piles - the top card is available for play. Discard pairs of cards that have ranks that add to 13. Possible pairs are Queen-Ace, Jack-Two, 10-3, 9-4, 8-5, 7-6. Kings are discarded singly. Spaces are filled from the stock, or the top card of the waste if the stock is empty. At the start of the game 1 card is dealt to the first pile, 2 cards to the 2nd, and so on. The top card is face up.